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PHYSICAL REVIEW D 103, 104047 (2021) Constraints on black-hole charges with the 2017 EHT observations of M87* – Prashant Kocherlakota ,1 Luciano Rezzolla,1 3 Heino Falcke,4 Christian M. Fromm,5,6,1 Michael Kramer,7 Yosuke Mizuno,8,9 Antonios Nathanail,9,10 H´ector Olivares,4 Ziri Younsi,11,9 Kazunori Akiyama,12,13,5 Antxon Alberdi,14 Walter Alef,7 Juan Carlos Algaba,15 Richard Anantua,5,6,16 Keiichi Asada,17 Rebecca Azulay,18,19,7 Anne-Kathrin Baczko,7 David Ball,20 Mislav Baloković,5,6 John Barrett,12 Bradford A. Benson,21,22 Dan Bintley,23 Lindy Blackburn,5,6 Raymond Blundell,6 Wilfred Boland,24 Katherine L. Bouman,5,6,25 Geoffrey C. Bower,26 Hope Boyce,27,28 – Michael Bremer,29 Christiaan D. Brinkerink,4 Roger Brissenden,5,6 Silke Britzen,7 Avery E. Broderick,30 32 Dominique Broguiere,29 Thomas Bronzwaer,4 Do-Young Byun,33,34 John E. Carlstrom,35,22,36,37 Andrew Chael,38,39 Chi-kwan Chan,20,40 Shami Chatterjee,41 Koushik Chatterjee,42 Ming-Tang Chen,26 Yongjun Chen (陈永军),43,44 Paul M. Chesler,5 Ilje Cho,33,34 Pierre Christian,45 John E. Conway,46 James M. Cordes,41 Thomas M. Crawford,22,35 Geoffrey B. Crew,12 Alejandro Cruz-Osorio,9 Yuzhu Cui,47,48 Jordy Davelaar,49,16,4 Mariafelicia De Laurentis,50,9,51 – Roger Deane,52 54 Jessica Dempsey,23 Gregory Desvignes,55 Sheperd S. Doeleman,5,6 Ralph P. Eatough,56,7 Joseph Farah,6,5,57 Vincent L. Fish,12 Ed Fomalont,58 Raquel Fraga-Encinas,4 Per Friberg,23 H. Alyson Ford,59 Antonio Fuentes,14 Peter Galison,5,60,61 Charles F. Gammie,62,63 Roberto García,29 Olivier Gentaz,29 Boris Georgiev,31,32 Ciriaco Goddi,4,64 Roman Gold,65,30 Jos´e L. Gómez,14 Arturo I. Gómez-Ruiz,66,67 Minfeng Gu (顾敏峰),43,68 Mark Gurwell,6 Kazuhiro Hada,47,48 Daryl Haggard,27,28 Michael H. Hecht,12 Ronald Hesper,69 Luis C. Ho (何子山),70,71 – Paul Ho,17 Mareki Honma,47,48,72 Chih-Wei L. Huang,17 Lei Huang (黄磊),43,68 David H. Hughes,66 Shiro Ikeda,13,73 75 Makoto Inoue,17 Sara Issaoun,4 David J. James,5,6 Buell T. Jannuzi,20 Michael Janssen,7 Britton Jeter,31,32 Wu Jiang (江悟),43 Alejandra Jimenez-Rosales,4 Michael D. Johnson,5,6 Svetlana Jorstad,76,77 Taehyun Jung,33,34 Mansour Karami,30,31 Ramesh Karuppusamy,7 Tomohisa Kawashima,78 Garrett K. Keating,6 Mark Kettenis,79 Dong-Jin Kim,7 Jae-Young Kim,33,7 Jongsoo Kim,33 Junhan Kim,20,25 Motoki Kino,13,80 Jun Yi Koay,17 Yutaro Kofuji,47,72 Patrick M. Koch,17 Shoko Koyama,17 Carsten Kramer,29 Thomas P. Krichbaum,7 Cheng-Yu Kuo,81,17 Tod R. Lauer,82 Sang-Sung Lee,33 Aviad Levis,25 Yan-Rong Li (李彦荣),83 Zhiyuan Li (李志远),84,85 Michael Lindqvist,46 Rocco Lico,14,7 Greg Lindahl,6 Jun Liu (刘俊),7 Kuo Liu,7 Elisabetta Liuzzo,86 Wen-Ping Lo,17,87 Andrei P. Lobanov,7 Laurent Loinard,88,89 – Colin Lonsdale,12 Ru-Sen Lu (路如森),43,44,7 Nicholas R. MacDonald,7 Jirong Mao (毛基荣),90 92 Nicola Marchili,86,7 Sera Markoff,42,93 Daniel P. Marrone,20 Alan P. Marscher,76 Iván Martí-Vidal,18,19 Satoki Matsushita,17 Lynn D. Matthews,12 Lia Medeiros,94,20 Karl M. Menten,7 Izumi Mizuno,23 James M. Moran,5,6 Kotaro Moriyama,12,47 Monika Moscibrodzka,4 Cornelia Müller,7,4 Gibwa Musoke,42,4 Alejandro Mus Mejías,18,19 Hiroshi Nagai,13,48 Neil M. Nagar,95 Masanori Nakamura,96,17 Ramesh Narayan,5,6 Gopal Narayanan,97 Iniyan Natarajan,54,52,98 Joseph Neilsen,99 Roberto Neri,29 Chunchong Ni,31,32 Aristeidis Noutsos,7 Michael A. Nowak,100 Hiroki Okino,47,72 Gisela N. Ortiz-León,7 Tomoaki Oyama,47 Feryal Özel,20 Daniel C. M. Palumbo,5,6 Jongho Park,17 Nimesh Patel,6 – Ue-Li Pen,30,101 103 Dominic W. Pesce,5,6 Vincent Pi´etu,29 Richard Plambeck,104 Aleksandar PopStefanija,97 Oliver Porth,42,9 Felix M. Pötzl,7 Ben Prather,62 Jorge A. Preciado-López,30 Dimitrios Psaltis,20 Hung-Yi Pu,105,17,30 Venkatessh Ramakrishnan,95 Ramprasad Rao,26 Mark G. Rawlings,23 Alexander W. Raymond,5,6 Angelo Ricarte,5,6 Bart Ripperda,106,16 Freek Roelofs,4 Alan Rogers,12 Eduardo Ros,7 Mel Rose,20 Arash Roshanineshat,20 Helge Rottmann,7 Alan L. Roy,7 Chet Ruszczyk,12 Kazi L. J. Rygl,86 Salvador Sánchez,107 David Sánchez-Arguelles,66,67 Mahito Sasada,47,108 Tuomas Savolainen,109,110,7 F. Peter Schloerb,97 Karl-Friedrich Schuster,29 Lijing Shao,7,71 Zhiqiang Shen (沈志强),43,44 Des Small,79 Bong Won Sohn,33,34,111 Jason SooHoo,12 He Sun (孙赫),25 Fumie Tazaki,47 Alexandra J. Tetarenko,112 Paul Tiede,31,32 Remo P. J. Tilanus,4,64,113,20 Michael Titus,12 Kenji Toma,114,115 Pablo Torne,7,107 Tyler Trent,20 Efthalia Traianou,7 Sascha Trippe,116 Ilse van Bemmel,79 Huib Jan van Langevelde,79,117 Daniel R. van Rossum,4 Jan Wagner,7 Derek Ward-Thompson,118 John Wardle,119 Jonathan Weintroub,5,6 Norbert Wex,7 Robert Wharton,7 Maciek Wielgus,5,6 George N. Wong,62 Qingwen Wu (吴庆文),120 Doosoo Yoon,42 Andr´e Young,4 Ken Young,6 Feng Yuan (袁峰),43,68,121 Ye-Fei Yuan (袁业飞),122 J. Anton Zensus,7 Guang-Yao Zhao,14 and Shan-Shan Zhao43 (EHT Collaboration) 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany 2Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany 3School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland 4Department of Astrophysics, Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands 5Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 2470-0010=2021=103(10)=104047(18) 104047-1 Published by the American Physical Society PRASHANT KOCHERLAKOTA et al. PHYS. REV. D 103, 104047 (2021) 6Center for Astrophysics—Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 7Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany 8Tsung-Dao Lee Institute and School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China 9Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 10Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, GR 15783 Zografos, Greece 11Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, United Kingdom 12Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, 99 Millstone Road, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA 13National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan 14Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC, Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain 15Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 16Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10010, USA 17Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, 11F of Astronomy-Mathematics Building, AS/NTU No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, R.O.C. 18Departament d’Astronomia i Astrofísica, Universitat de Val`encia, C. Dr. Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Val`encia, Spain 19Observatori Astronòmic, Universitat de Val`encia, C. Catedrático Jos´e Beltrán 2, E-46980 Paterna, Val`encia, Spain 20Steward Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Arizona, 933 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 21Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS209, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA 22Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 23East Asian Observatory, 660 N. A’ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA 24Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA), PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands 25California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 26Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, 645 N. A’ohoku Place, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA 27Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montr´eal, Quebec City H3A 2T8, Canada 28McGill Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University, Montr´eal, Quebec City H3A 2A7, Canada 29Institut de Radioastronomie Millim´etrique, 300 rue de la Piscine, F-38406 Saint Martin d’H`eres, France 30Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada 31Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada 32Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada 33Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daedeok-daero 776, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34055, Republic of Korea 34University of Science and Technology, Gajeong-ro 217, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea 35Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 36Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 37Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 38Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Jadwin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 39NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, Einstein Fellow 40Data Science Institute, University of Arizona, 1230 N. Cherry Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 41Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA 42Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, Netherlands 43Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 80 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, People’s Republic of China 104047-2 CONSTRAINTS ON BLACK-HOLE CHARGES WITH THE 2017 … PHYS.
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    Securing a strong outcome for research in the EU-UK future relationship: Reaching an agreement on UK participation in Horizon Europe The EU and UK have been discussing UK participation in Union Programmes, including Horizon Europe, as part of the negotiations on a future EU-UK relationship. It is encouraging that both sides have committed to the principle of UK participation in their mandates, recognising that collaboration between the UK and the EU in the framework programmes strengthens our ability to tackle shared challenges, such as cancer and climate change. It is vital that this commitment now translates quickly into an agreement on the terms of participation. Horizon Europe association should be a core part of the future relationship between the EU and the UK for research, underpinning valuable scientific partnerships that have been built up over many years. We have all reaped the health benefits of these collaborations. Clinical trials, particularly on diseases with limited patient populations, are reliant on EU-UK collaboration, while close research partnerships continue to accelerate life-changing medical research. Our ability to respond to the threat of climate change and outbreaks of new diseases like Covid-19 has also been greatly improved by close scientific and clinical partnerships across Europe. Knowledge and discovery do not stop at borders, and the shared global challenges we face require joint solutions. Collaboration through the research framework programmes is a springboard to productive partnerships across the world. We owe it to future generations in the UK, the EU and beyond to ensure that the new EU-UK relationship best serves them through research.